Born on this day – Fanny Schreck:

Fanny Schreck

Actress

July 15, 1877 – December 11, 1951

Credits:

Alles aus Liebe (1943); Der Herr im Haus (1940); Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (1931); Die Nichte aus USA (1937); Die Stimme aus dem Äther (1939); Die Talfahrt des Severin Hoyey (1922); Eine Stunde (1940); Matrimonial Strike (1935); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922); Rote Mühle (1940); Silvesternacht am Alexanderplatz (1939); That really old vampire movie (2014); The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935); The Hunter of Fall (1936).

Recommended reading – Beeswax Alchemy (2015):

Beeswax Alchemy

How to Make Your Own Soap, Candles, Balms, Creams, and Salves from the Hive

By Petra Ahnert.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1592539793

ISBN-13: 978-1592539796

Published 2015.

Description:

“This is the book I’ve been waiting thirty years for. Excellent instructions. Bountiful information. Beautifully done.”

– Kim Flottum, beekeeper; author of The Backyard Beekeeper, Better Beekeeping, and The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook; and editor of Bee Culture magazine.

Create natural beeswax products for health and home.

Beeswax is truly the miracle of the beehive. Although honeybees use it to build their hives and protect their young, you can use it to make everything from candles to lip balm to decorative fabric.

Regardless of whether you are a veteran beekeeper or someone who just likes the way beeswax looks and smells, you’ll learn from apiarist and entrepreneur Petra Ahnert, who will teach you how to transform this miraculous material into the beautiful, useful, and unexpected.

Inside you’ll find:

An introduction to beeswax’s form and functions.

Tips and techniques for transforming beeswax into useful products for home and health.

Detailed recipes to get you started crafting your own soaps, balms, salves, and more.

Introvert insight:

In my quiet, I was working something out.

- Keanu Reeves.

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing.

A sad case.

- Henry Rollins.

Do you hate people?

I don't hate them ... I just feel better when they're not around.

- Charles Bukowski.

People empty me.

I have to get away to refill.

- Charles Bukowski.

Stephen King, on writing:

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

- Stephen King.

On this day in music history - Butterfly, by Natalie Merchant (2017):

Butterfly

Album by Natalie Merchant,
released July 14, 2017.

Track list:

Butterfly; She Devil; Baby Mine; Frozen Charlotte; Ophelia; The Worst Thing; The Man in the Wilderness; My Skin; Vain & Careless; Andalucia.

On this day in movie history - Escape Clause (1996):

Escape Clause

directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith,

written by Danilo Bach,

was released in the United States on July 14, 1996.

Music by Richard Marvin and Ken Thorne.

Cast:

Andrew McCarthy, Paul Sorvino, Connie Britton, Kate McNeil, Stan Egi, Kenneth Welsh, John Evans, Peter Donaldson, Victor A. Young, Sean Dick, Dawn Greenhalgh, Chantel Dick, Lupe Arenas, Tara Rosling, Peter Langley, Claire Rankin, Yanira Contreras, Stephen Bogaert, Roger Honeywell, Ron Hartmann, Bob Clout, Robbie Rox, Gord Mackenzie, Phillip Jarrett, Scott Wickware, John Boylan, Shawn Lawrence, Chuck Shamata, Laura Catalano, Carol Chwaiewsky, Tricia Brioux, Garnet Harding, Djanet Sears, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Linda Goranson, Julie Evans.

On this day in movie history - Midnight Alibi (1934):

Midnight Alibi

directed by Alan Crosland,

written by Warren Duff,

based on the short story The Old Doll’s House by Damon Runyon,

was released in the United States on July 14, 1934.
Music by Heinz Roemheld.

Cast:

Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler, Helen Lowell, Henry O'Neill, Robert Barrat, Robert McWade, Purnell Pratt, Harry Tyler, Paul Hurst, Arthur Aylesworth.